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From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] Remove va_copy at MSVC because there are va_copy.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:22:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A899FFD.3080607@workspacewhiz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908171840450.4991@intel-tinevez-2-302>

----- Original Message -----
From: Johannes Schindelin
Date: 8/17/2009 10:49 AM
> How about this instead?
>
> 	Work around Microsoft Visual C++ not having va_copy()
>
> 	In winansi.c, Git wants to know the length of the formatted string 
> 	so it can allocate enough space for it.  But Microsoft Visual C++
> 	does not have va_copy(), so we have to guess
I did not look at the surrounding code, but could Microsoft's C runtime 
extension _vscprintf, which returns the number of characters in the 
formatted string, be of use here?

Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 16:04 [PATCH 05/11] Remove va_copy at MSVC because there are va_copy Frank Li
2009-08-17 16:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-17 18:22   ` Joshua Jensen [this message]
2009-08-17 16:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-17 16:56   ` Reece Dunn
2009-08-17 17:02   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-17 17:26     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-17 19:46     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-18  5:06   ` Frank Li
2009-08-18  9:54     ` Johannes Schindelin

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